1 box truck to Colorado Springs CO (Thursday)
... spending the night at Corsicana TX
None of the box trucks we wanted have shown up out of TX near where we are sitting. They did put trucks out of KS, but that is a 600 mile dead head to get to and a non-CDL so it is paying less.
By 8 AM we decide to move a couple of mixers that will keep us in Texas and not to far away. After a few phone calls, the dispatcher finds out that someone else moved the trucks yesterday and never told him. Pay was OK, better than anything else we have looked at.
While we are on the phone, he mentions other trucks that he will be putting on the load board. One was a tanker going to MS, but that was gone within minutes.
The trips out of KS were gone fairly quickly. First the one to St Paul, and then the one to IL. If the St Paul one was a CDL it may have paid enough to deadhead 600 miles to it. (Now I'm starting to think that might have been the better deal)
Instead we agreed to take a truck to CO and then dead head 900 miles from there ??? When we call on the truck to CO we find out that it requires a 24 hour notice AND pays less than some of the non-CDL's. But timing. All of these trucks were not on the load board at the same time.
Now, after we have agreed to take the truck to CO, there is a truck from the closer shipper going 1,500 miles to PA. If we had waited.
So today is a re-start day. I shouldn't have any hour of service issues for the next week and then we will likely be off for a few days/weeks.
Once we knew we were in town for the day, BB found a Pioneer Park for us to visit. Also a Walmart for us to 'get one thing.' Then a place to eat called Napoli's.
We decided to go to Walmart first so we weren't trying to eat with the crowds right at noon. Instead we got there about 12:30. There was one group of construction workers ... and one other person. BB usually walks out when she sees white table clothes but today we stayed. Great food. I did not have the salad that came with my meal and I still just barely finished it. Lots of it and good.
It is in the 'historic' area of town. Most of the buildings are from the 1800's. The building across the street looked like it is being re-done. It is an eight story large block/rock building. We also saw the original town jail. In the down town area the streets are all cobble stone/brick.
I think she thought we were going to walk a park but that didn't happen. We pulled in to the park area and she thought it looked like people were breaking in to the one car sitting there so we went to the Pioneer part of the park. $8 and it has the local history. A lot of the buildings are built from original logs for the original settlers. Everything in most of the buildings is 100+ years old.
We spent a couple of hours there before it got too hot for BB. This area is next to a play park and two cemeteries but not cemeteries where any of my family is buried.
Time for the hotel. Comfort Inn in Corsicana. BB had looked at the Quality Inn but decided to spend the extra $20. It also sounds like she will be following me all the way home. So we will have the rental car for the week. That is what she had to rent it for to get one, but often we return them early.
But if we get one more truck after this, then the car will have been cheaper this way instead of getting different cars between each truck.
Late, we walk to McD's across the parking lot. Our other choice was Subway in the gas station. Everything else was a get in and drive. There was anther place in town I would like to try but it closed at 5:30. A Bakery and Deli.
Load board
US - 181
IA - 1/0
MN - 5
WI - 2
CO -0-
Tomorrow we will be at the shipper about 8 AM when they open. We should be able to get about 500 miles which will be Dalhart TX. Leaving 300 miles for Friday. So far no work for the weekend.